Good Old Games, like the retail equivalent of Eddie McDowd, has made "do good deeds" its personal mission. After promising to compensate users for regional pricing, what could be next on their plate? Well, as it turns out...
Good Old Games...We just wanted to announce that, after much deliberation, we've decided that one of the next steps for us is to support Linux. Now, we're not ready to launch Linux games on GOG.com just yet. We've only been working on bringing these Linux games to our service for a few months, and there's lots more to go, but we wanted to let you know what's going to be coming this fall to a digital distributor near you.
We're initially going to be launching our Linux support on GOG.com with the full GOG.com treatment for Ubuntu and Mint. That means that right now, we're hammering away at testing games on a variety of configurations, training up our teams on Linux-speak, and generally getting geared up for a big kick-off in the fall with at least 100 Linux games ready for you to play. This is, of course, going to include games that we sell which already have Linux clients, but we'll also be bringing Linux gamers a variety of classics that are, for the first time, officially supported and maintained by a storefront like ours.
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At this rate, they're going to have cancer and AIDS cured by the end of the year. Hopefully that offsets all the carpal tunnel.
Now, they haven't announced which titles will be available yet - according to the post, they are still only in the very early planning stages. Still, couple this move with Valve's own SteamOS, and it seems that Linux is slowly becoming a more viable platform and Linux users are finally being taken seriously.
I'm sure all 12 of you must be very happy.